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The Chimerical Dark

The Home of Sean M Davis' Shadowed Imagination

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How I Write: Setting

Posted on October 13, 2025October 13, 2025 by SeanMDavis in how to, Writing

I continue writing about my process; this time, writing about setting.

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How I Write: Characters

Posted on September 15, 2025 by SeanMDavis in Fiction, how to, Writing

In lieu of a What I'm Watching post, I've decided to do a little series about how I write

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Coming Home

Posted on July 28, 2025 by SeanMDavis in Fiction, Writing

An update on Codename: Fairyland

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Anything Worth Doing…

Posted on May 19, 2025 by SeanMDavis in Day in the Life, Thinking out loud, Writing

"You can do anything you put your mind to" is bad advice. This is better.

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The Pushback

Posted on May 5, 2025 by SeanMDavis in Day in the Life, Thinking out loud, Writing

Thinking about ways to push through the pushback.

Tagged bike, bikes, biking, clean freak, Codename: candy, Codename: Fairyland, cycling, Fiction, horror, short story, update, WritingLeave a comment

I sold a book and that’s a big deal

Posted on November 5, 2024 by SeanMDavis in Business of Writing, Day in the Life

But probably not for the reason you think.

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Notebook Work

Posted on October 27, 2024October 28, 2024 by SeanMDavis in Fiction, Writing

In which I think about the role of notebook work in my writing process.

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Pantsing v. Plotting

Posted on August 26, 2024 by SeanMDavis in Thinking out loud, Writing

In a covert update on Codename: Memories, I examine the difference between pantsing and plotting, which turns out to be not that much difference after all.

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My 100th post

Posted on July 30, 2024 by SeanMDavis in Day in the Life, Writing

Celebrating a milestone.

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Endless creativity

Posted on May 20, 2024 by SeanMDavis in Day in the Life, Writing

I reflect on how, during what I thought was a fallow period in my creative life, it had simply shifted from one mode of expression to another.

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